Concert Movies of the Late Sixties and Seventies

[Idris2002]

Last night I watched the Maysles' brothers' film Gimme Shelter, their fly-on-the wall account of the awful fuck-up that was the Rolling Stones at Altamont.

The concert footage was pretty good, I have to say, even though I'm not a Stones fan, and it got me thinking, what other, similar movies are there like that out there?

I've got the Woodstock movie on disc, and also the Leonard Cohen live at the Isle of Wight thing (and wasn't there a movie of the Isle of Wight '70 thing?).

What I really like is the tones and palette in the kind of colour film that was used in these things - it's really more that and the cinematography that gets me more than the music.

But my question is, what other films of this type, from that era, would people recommend?

 

[belboid]

Monterey Pop is worth a watch, Festival (Murray Lerner, 1967) has some definite charm, & Fillmore/Last Days of the Fillmore (1972).

The Last Waltz is wonderfully shot, tho not so much of the tones, as I recall. I haven't seen Message To Love, which is the Isle of Wight film, it is meant to be very, very, good tho (oh, and I realise I have seen some of it, which is included in the Jethro Tull - Nothing Is Easy film, which is mostly IoW)

 

[sunnysidedown]

D.A. Pennebaker is your man, he was director/Cinematographer on a few music documentaries during that time (inc Monterey Pop already mentioned), he adapter his camera so that he could get those close up shots that no one else could get at the time, I think his first music doc was Don't Look Back about Dylan.

 

[blossie33]

I love music docs from all periods, I have the Stones Gimme Shelter one and also the Exile on Main Street DVD about when they were living in the South of France.

This one; www.festivalexpress.com is interesting and I recently picked up a three DVD/CD of Creedence Clearwater Revival, two of the DVD are of their concerts - not particularly top quality film but still interesting if you like the music.

 

[Sweet FA]

The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus
Cocksucker Blues
Monterey Pop
Don't Look Back
Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars (this was on BBC4 (I think) last week)

I'm sure there's a good late 60s US folk one too.

 

[Indeliblelink]

You might like Wattstax (1973) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070902/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

 

[Indeliblelink]

Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii

 

[peterkro]

Not a movie as such,the Specials live at Colchester college is worth a watch.Everyone was on fire band,audience,sound people.The only bad thing was the lighting,don't use green when quite a lot of people are black skinned it don't work:

 

[Idris2002]

Thanks for all these, folks. What I like about these things is the little bits of social history that were included almost by accident while the stars were being followed around.

In Rory Gallagher Irish Tour '74 there's a brief glimpse of housing conditions in Belfast in that year, and I was watching it with one of my brothers who said, "but that looks like something out of the nineteenth century", to which I replied "why do you think there was a war?"

 

[Indeliblelink]

Glastonbury Fayre (1972)

 

[hot air baboon]

.....not exactly concert as such ( & another Stones one )


http://www.amazon.co.uk/One-Rolling-Stones-Sympathy-Devil/dp/B000F5S23C/ref=sr_1_7?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1435150900&sr=1-7&keywords=godard+one++

 

[Sweet FA]

This looks interesting; Medicine Ball Caravan (aka We Have Come For Your Daughters).

Some 43 years ago, a much-hyped “youth” film was produced with intentions to capitalize on the success of “Woodstock”, Michael Waldleigh’s immensely popular (and Oscar-winning) documentary of the epoch-making rock festival. In the summer of 1970, Warner Brothers spent nearly a million dollars putting together the Medicine Ball Caravan, as 150 recruited hippies, accompanied by a French film crew, undertook a cross-country tour from San Francisco to D.C., promulgating the Aquarian lifestyle and staging a series of free concerts along the way. But when it was released to theaters in August of 1971, the youths stayed away in record numbers and Rolling Stone named it one of the ten worst films of the year. Fred Weintraub, the savvy New Yorker who had owned the star-making Bottom Line nightclub, got the gig as head of Warner’s youth market after taking a gamble on filming some three-day music show upstate that then turned out to be a decade-defining event. WB was eager for a follow up and Weintraub tried to conjure an event that would be a sort of Woodstock on wheels. The story of why Medicine Ball Caravan still barely qualifies as an afterthought in the history of rock documentaries says a lot about shifting cultural attitudes at the start of the Seventies, as well as to the potential pitfalls of filming pre-conceived “reality” events.

https://rickouellettereelandrock.wo...-of-the-medicine-ball-caravan/comment-page-1/

 

[andysays]

wasn't there a movie of the Isle of Wight '70 thing?...

There's lots of footage from the IoW '70 on youtube - this is my fave